Device for attaching clothes to clothes lines



(No Model.)

' O. MOSHANE.

DEVICE FOR ATTACHING CLOTHES TC CLOTHES LINES. 1 N0. 532,242.

Patented Jan. 8, 1895.

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UNITED STATES PATE T OFFICE.

OWEN MOSHANE, OF MONTREAL, CANADA.

DEVICE FOR ATTAC'HING CLOTHES TO CLOTHES-LINES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 532,242, dated January 8, 1 895 Application filed April 5, 1894. serialNo. 506,477- (No model.)

To all whom it mew/concern.- Be it known that I, OWEN MCSHANE, of the city of Montreal, in the District of Montreal and Province of Quebec, Canada, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Devices for Attaching Clothes to Clothes- Lines; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same. p

This invention is intended to produce a device to take the place of the usual clothes-pin in attaching clothes to clothes lines and the object is to secure a safer, more reliable and cheaper device for the purpose, its construction and operation being such that thick clothes or articles can be fastened or held betfor than by the plain wooden or snap pins at present in use. I

The invention consists of a holdfast composed of a pair of blocks and a flexible connection the blocks having'perforations or passages therein to receive the flexible connecclothes are held. Forfull comprehension however of the invention, reference must be had to the annexed drawings forming a part of this specification, in which Figure 1 is aview of a clothes line with my holdfasts supporting the clothes thereon; Fig. 2, a series of my holdfasts connected to the clothes and to supports in such a way as to dispense with the clothes line; Fig. 3, a view showing one holdfast attaching one corner. of each'of two garments to a clothes line, and Fig. 4 a detail view of the holdfast.

'a a are blocks preferably of wood, of an oblong rectangular form and each having two perforations or passages b b.

c is a flexible connection or cord, each end of which is first passed from one side freely through the perforation or passage 1) in each block and then returned from the other side through the perforation or passage 1) and the ends knotted on the sides from which they were first passed, so that loops (1 d are formed. These loops can of course be enlarged or diminished in size to receive the article, to be held and when this is in place the loops are tightened by any pull upon the central part of the cord as by placing it over a clothes line and supporting the weight of the articles held as shown in Fig. 3, or two holdfasts can be crossed" within each other, hung on the line and hold the articles by two loops at each corner as shown in Fig. 1.

Fig. 2 shows how a number of articles can be strung together by holdfasts arranged between each article and the whole supported without any clothes line, the free loops of holdfasts at the ends of the series of articles being slipped over any convenient hook supports.

What I claim is as follows:

1. A holdfast, for the pn rpose set forth, comprising a pair of blocks'and a flexible connection, the blocks having perforations or passages therein to receive the flexible connection and allow of the formation ofa retaining loop, 

